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From Marina Grande most visitors take a shiny new aluminum funicular (fare: 28?) up to the tiny Piazza Umberto, Capri's main square. There the day excursionist mounts the steps behind the piazza-to save money, he does not take a cafe table-and watches the crowd swirling beneath: men with pink shoes and dyed blond hair, women in sequined toreador slacks or skintight shorts...
...Rotarians let them down. Staid, stout and respectable, they ignored the hotspots, loosed not a wolf whistle. Festooned with cameras and shopping bags, they took the funicular to Sugar Loaf mountain, gazed at the Christ of Corcovado, swarmed into the curio shops to buy butterfly trays and carved knickknacks...
...mark the spot. The citizens offered $125,000 in prizes for the best ideas. Last week the winning design was announced: a stainless steel, streamlined, 590-ft.-high arch to rise beside the Mississippi on a site which was formerly occupied mostly by old warehouses. The arch, with a "funicular elevator and observation corridor," had first reared in the mind of a talented Michigan architect named Eero Saarinen, who, with his father Eliel, is a frequent winner of architectural competitions. His prize this time: $40,000 and a warm recommendation to Washington. (Congress must approve the "Jefferson National Expansion Memorial...
Although the towns on Vesuvius clustered nearer the cone than those on Etna, none was seriously damaged by the several threatening flows, but the funicular railway on the slope was completely overwhelmed and ashes were reported to have fallen in Albania, 300 miles away
...Guerra, Fame, Distruzione." Sulphurous lava, 2,500° F. hot, more than 30 feet deep and 200 yards wide, rolled over the funicular that had carried many a tourist to the Valle dell' Inferno near the crater's edge. Glowing boulders rattled from the mainstream, set orchards and vineyards afire. The flood engulfed the village of San Sebastiano: first a stone house, then the yellow school and the little church, finally the wineshop...